kingnovel Chapter 822 Do I Look Like the Sky?
Chapter 822 Do I Look Like the Sky?
Petrique, the hometown mentioned by an engineer who almost got blown up in the sand.
When Xu Ning appeared at the port, several adventurers were frantically carrying large crates onto a pitiful little boat.
Judging by how much effort they put into lifting the boxes, if no one had stopped them, the small boat would still be resentfully stuck on the seabed by these boxes, waiting to grow its 428th batch of green moss, decades later.
"Meow!"
A cat's meow suddenly rang out beside Xu Ning.
Xu Ning looked down, seemingly puzzled by the sudden appearance of the cat, but when his eyes met the cat's, he suddenly smiled.
"I was just wondering how you would appear before me this time... So this little guy is actually willing to let you stay in his little house?"
The cat seemed a little impatient with Xu Ning's rambling, stretched out a paw to rub its face, and then pointed at the adventurers.
If it were someone else, they might not understand the cat's movements at all, but Xu Ning smiled knowingly and walked directly towards those people.
"What are you doing coming closer? If you take another step, I won't be polite..."
A man who appeared to be the leader of the adventurer's party issued a warning almost the instant he saw Xu Ning facing them, as if the chest behind them contained countless priceless treasures.
But Xu Ning seemed to already know what was in those boxes, and asked directly, "Where are you going to move these unwanted stones?"
"Stones? Ha! Foolish outsider!"
The leader seemed to be mocking Xu Ning's shallow understanding, "We went through a lot of trouble to infiltrate the Demon King's city and use various tactics to disrupt the Demon King's army's military operations to retrieve the treasure they had looted from our Fengdan people. You call it a stone? Are you coveting it and wanting us to give up the treasure so you can profit from it?"
Xu Ning sighed and waved his hand, "I was wrong. I knew you were out of your minds, yet I still wasted my breath talking to you."
As the smell of alcohol filled the air, all the adventurers swayed in unison and then tumbled to the ground.
Xu Ning silently got these people drunk, then casually opened the box, which was indeed filled with stones, just as he had said.
To be precise, they are the remains of some stone statues.
"The burden of fate is so heavy that even demons dare not easily bear it. They have only been given a slightly more resilient body. How dare they presume to break free from their shackles?"
Xu Ning tilted his wine gourd, and a surge of wine poured out, washing over the surrounding boxes one by one.
As if a heavy sigh was heard, phantom figures suddenly appeared and stood up from the stone statue, then dissolved back into the wine. After one round, all the wine returned to the Dust Concealment Gourd.
Watching the cat licking its paws with a satisfied expression, Xu Ning looked towards the village and asked, "What's the situation inside?"
The cat, which was licking its paws, suddenly paused, and in a very human-like manner, shook the drool off its paws. It then spoke abruptly: "Just last night, the seal was broken, and countless consciousnesses surged out, engulfing the entire town. I doubt there are any conscious people left. If you had come a few days earlier, perhaps this wouldn't have happened at all..."
"I'm so caught up in worldly affairs, I can't find any peace and quiet!"
Xu Ning let out a Liyue-style sigh and stepped inside. "But your good friend still won't give up even now, that's quite tenacious. The two of you standing together are practically a carbon copy of 'Here Comes' and 'Silly Girl.' But why does it feel like the worse people are, the more persistent they are? Like you, you gave up long ago, while he's still causing trouble..."
The cat trotted after him, its tail held high, clearly expressing its dissatisfaction with Xu Ning's remarks.
"If that's the case, then you're the worst and most troublesome one in all of Teyvat!"
Xu Ning glanced at the cat, calmly took a sip of his drink, and said, "Don't blame me for not reminding you, I beat up Remus back then because he said that."
The cat was furious. "Didn't you attack our great Supreme Being because you wanted to steal His 'Pure Spirit Dew'?"
Xu Ning smiled, avoiding a town resident who was rambling on about "barbarian invasion, soldiers must fulfill their duty."
“That was just a convenient thing to do. Even if the ‘Pure Spirit Dew’ were in His hands, it wouldn’t be of much use, so it would have been better to give it to me sooner. Remus has been used to failure and retreat from the beginning, so when he finds that things are not going to work out, he always lacks the courage to ‘burn his boats and fight with his back to the river’ at the last moment. Instead, he compromises in every way until there is no way to avoid it, and then it is too late.”
The cat leaped onto a large wooden barrel, waving its whiskers and hissing, "You're talking nonsense! Our great Supreme One last... last..."
Xu Ning chuckled as he watched the cat's fur stand on end. "You know he still dragged it out until the very end, didn't you? Back in Sumeru, I advised him to come with me, but he couldn't bear to give up the little territory he had built. In the end, he couldn't defeat the Crimson King, and he refused to fight to the death, yet he also refused to lower himself to serve a new master. In the end, he still ended up on the path I told him to take..."
The cat was startled. "The road you're talking about? What road are you talking about?"
"I just recited a line of poetry to Him."
Xu Ning took a sip of wine and recited: "A single meeting of golden wind and jade dew surpasses countless encounters in the mortal world!"
“My original intention was that as long as He would do as I said, go to the underground ancient city to fetch the golden bees from the silver ancient tree for me, and go to the dragon lizard prison to get the jade dew from Egolia for me, He would be better than most people in this world. At that time, He could go wherever He wanted to die, and His name would be recorded in the world’s merit book.”
"Who would have thought that he listened to the Golden Bee and suddenly felt he was capable again, wanting to go it alone once more! He didn't bring the Golden Bee, and he didn't give me the Jade Dew either, so why don't I beat him up!"
The cat was so shocked by these words that it couldn't even retract its little pink tongue.
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty was summoned by the heavens, which led you to find the prophet Sybil, who had transformed into a golden bee, and then, under the prophet's guidance... you found the Spirit Dew, and the way to transform the people of Remuria... You... you are lying!"
Xu Ning walked to the clock tower in the center of town, leaned against a pillar, and sneered at the cat: "That Remus, a guy who wants to rebel against the 'fate' set by 'heavenly principles,' guess which heaven will give him instructions? If there really is a 'heaven,' then look at me. Don't I look like heaven?"
The cat turned around and jumped off the wooden barrel, still facing Xu Ning with its rear end.